Some people with serious COVID-19 who need a ventilator may have a tracheostomy. This involves the insertion of a breathing tube through an incision in your neck. It can improve some hospital-related ...

Patients could ultimately be prioritized based on a number of factors. Faced with more critically ill COVID-19 patients than equipment to treat them, hundreds of hospitals are mapping out how they can ...

U.S. hospitals bracing for a possible onslaught of coronavirus patients with pneumonia and other breathing difficulties could face a critical shortage of mechanical ventilators and health care workers ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A health care worker who was on the front lines continues to recover after contracting COVID-19. After a month, she's finally tested negative for the virus, but her recovery ...

Coronavirus has spread to all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. An outbreak of the novel coronavirus that began in China about three months ago has now infected more than 9,345 people ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- This Mother's Day weekend is especially special for Maria Mendoza, a recovering COVID-19 patient. The 54-year-old woman was on a ventilator for 35 days after testing positive ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Wednesday announced that the city is bracing for a surge of people needing hospitalization in the coming week, saying the "numbers are going ...

Doctors in Arizona doubted that Dr. Karl Viddal was going to make it. The ventilator was running at its highest setting and still wasn't enough for his lungs. Doctors in Arizona doubted that Dr. Karl ...

Amanda Kloots divulged how much her late husband's 95-day hospital stay cost her as he battled coronavirus in 2020. Broadway star Nick Cordero ultimately lost his life to COVID-19 after suffering mini ...

The Texas Medical Board reprimanded Dr. Mary Talley Bowden for prescribing ivermectin to a patient at a Fort Worth hospital ...